obamacare was signed into law 1,256 days ago. since then there's been user problems after user problems after user problem. regarding health care.gov, your help duty administrator for consumer information, gary cohen, testified one month ago, right where you're sitting, that, this is a quote, c.m.s. has worked hard to test the infrastructure that will allow americans to enroll in coverage confidently, simply, and securely. end quote. t according to forbes in the "wall street journal," you told them that you needed five years of construction and one year of testing. the system has crashed earn burned at least three times. the use certificate still having roblems. it's been down the whole time you have been testifying. the system is down at this moment my question is very simple. when did you know it was going down, a month, day, quarter? did you tell the president when you knew? -- what you knew? >> sir, i was informed that we were ready to launch on october 1. the contractors who we had as our private partners told us and told th